Qualifying exams
The minimum requirements for students who want me to sit on their PhD qualifying exams are:
Send me your proposal at least one month prior to your exam so that I can provide useful feedback and suggest additional readings.
- Be familiar with materials in these core texts, and expect questions regarding them:
- George and Bennett's Case Selection and Theory Development
- Lieberson's Making it Count
- Ostrom's Understanding Institutional Diversity
- Sabatier and Weible's Theories of the Policy Process